GTA 5: PS5 version often improves criticized point

GTA 5 is one of the most successful games of all time. However, the almost nine-year-old game is always criticized for his long loading times. The Next Gen version now promises improvement.

• PS5 loading times: three times as fast as PS4
• "Enormous shortening, but still too long"

PS5 loading times: three times as fast as PS4

When Grand Theft Auto appeared 5 in 2013, the Open World game was able to entertain its varied gameplay and living world with its varied gameplay. However, the ** Eternally long loading times were a mandrel in the eye. With the Next-Gen version, this changes now.

The gaming magazine Video Games Chronicle has compared the loading times of the PS4 and PS5 versions of GTA 5 and can detect a strong improvement. Thus GTA 5 loads on the PlayStation 5 three times as fast as on the predecessor console; While the PS4 needed one and a half minutes, the PS5 manages to hold the charging time under 30 seconds. (Source: VGC)

"Enormous shortening, but still too long"

Even if the loading times on the PlayStation 5 are clearly shorter, fans of GTA 5 remain unimpressed . Under the comparison video, the user writes Uptown Game Corner: "Enormous shortening, but still that's too long." (Source: YouTube - VGC)

Compared with other open-world hits for the PS5, as the recently published Horizon Forbidden West, which only takes a few seconds to load , is the lack of euphoria traceable. Some users even mock Rockstar Games because they apparently can not optimize a nine-year-old game.

If you want to experience quick loading times in a new open-world game, accesses! The above-mentioned Horizon Forbidden West shows how it works:

Horizon Forbidden West - [PlayStation 4]

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The Next Gen version of Grand Theft Auto 5 comes with further improvements. For example, you can choose between three different graphics modes; Depending on whether your 60 fps, native 4k or raytracing preferred.

GTA 5 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X is now DIGITAL available ; The disc version should follow in April.